Aleksei Evert

Aleksei Evert (4 March 1857-12 November 1918) was a General of the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He was murdered by the Bolshevik Cheka secret police force during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Aleksei Evert was born in Moscow, Russian Empire on 4 March 1857 to a family of Orthodox German nobles. He joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1876 and served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and he later served as a staff officer for several army divisions and corps. In 1905, he became the head of the headquarters of a Russian army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. In 1911, he was promoted to General of the Infantry, and he became commander-in-chief of the Irkutsk Military District in 1912. At the start of World War I, he was given command of the Russian 10th Army, fighting in the Battle of Galicia and the Battle of the Vistula River. In 1915, he became commander-in-chief of the Western Front, repelling the Austro-German offensives on Smorgon and Dvinsk that same year. In 1916, he commanded the failed offensive at Lake Naroch, and he later fought in the Brusilov Offensive. Following the 1917 February Revolution, Evert was dismissed from command. He was arrested by the Cheka in 1918 and killed by his guards on the way to Mozhaisk.